The UN & EPA are Pursuing Culture Change – Not Climate Change, Says a Texas Cattlewoman

A Texas Cattlewoman’s review of the FAO’s, “Livestock’s Long Shadow”, reveals the socialistic intent of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' indictment of the Livestock Industry...Livestock do not contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than transport, says Jimmie West, who runs a small cattle ranch in Southeast Texas where she raises rare British White Cattle, the ancient polled Park cattle of the British Isles. Her cattle graze on a mix of improved and native pastures, which the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) considers substandard feed, and an “unproductive use of dietary energy” for the belching cow. The FAO is relentlessly advocating adding grain to a cow’s diet to alter the emissions they belch and to alter the emissions of their manure as well, and preferably on as small a spot of land as physically possible. Ms. West says this is a bogus “mitigating” policy of the FAO’s that is not even supportable by their own data on methane and nitrous oxide emissions from the belch and from the manure of cattle...read more